Sasha Stone's Predictions

Sasha Stone is the founder and editor of AwardsDaily.com, established in 1999. She is credited with birthing the Oscar watching industry online, for better or worse, mostly worse. She has been covering the Oscars for over 25 years as she raised her only daughter as a single mom. She mourns the passing of her three cats but now enjoys the company of two dogs and many birds.

She writes every day on Substack for a popular political blog, Free Thinking Through the Fourth Turning, and as a result has made lots of people in Hollywood and online very very mad. So she was “benched” from Gold Derby, the second Oscar site that launched the industry. And for now, she’s enjoying being an outsider.

She lives in a small town somewhere in California and tries to stay focused on the things that matter while sitting around and waiting to die. No, just kidding. Only sort of kidding. Not kidding at all.

She is obsessed with various things like mass hysteria witch hunts that drove communities to do crazy things throughout our history. We’re living through one now. Isn’t it fun? No, no one would say it was fun.

She won a screenwriting contest way back in 1993 (third place) and has a short film on Netflix called The Summer of the Shark.

Predictions


Best Picture

Label 1Label 2
Anora
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
I’m Still Here
Nickel Boys
The Substance
Wicked

Best Director

Label 1Label 2
Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
Sean Baker, Anora
Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
James Mangold, A Complete Unknown

Best Actor

Label 1Label 2
Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice

Best Actress

Label 1Label 2
Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
Mikey Madison, Anora
Demi Moore, The Substance
Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here

Best Supporting Actor

Label 1Label 2
1.Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
2.Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
3.Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
4.Yura Borisov, Anora
5.Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice

Best Supporting Actress

Label 1Label 2
Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown
Ariana Grande, Wicked
Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez

Best Original Screenplay

Label 1Label 2
Anora
The Brutalist
A Real Pain
September 5
The Substance

Best Adapted Screenplay

Label 1Label 2
1.A Complete Unknown
2.Conclave
3.Emilia Pérez
4.Nickel Boys
5.Sing Sing

Best Cinematography

Label 1Label 2
The Brutalist
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Maria
Nosferatu

Best Editing

Label 1Label 2
Anora
The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Wicked

Best Production Design

Label 1Label 2
The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nosferatu
Wicked

Best Costume Design

RankBest Costumes
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Gladiator Ii
Nosferatu
Wicked

Best Sound and Sound Mixing

RankSound
A Complete Unknown
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Wicked
The Wild Robot

Best Hair & Makeup

Rankmakeup
A Different Man
Emilia Pérez
Nosferatu
The Substance
Wicked

Best Visual Effects

Rankmakeup
Alien: Romulus
Better Man
Dune: Part Two
Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes
Wicked

Best Original Score

RankScore
The Brutalist, Daniel Blumberg
Conclave, Volker Bertelmann
Emilia Pérez, Clément Ducol And Camille,
Wicked, John Powell And Stephen Schwartz
The Wild Robot, Kris Bowers

Best Original Song

RankScore
El Mal, From Emilia Pérez
The Journey, From The Six Triple Eight
Like A Bird, From Sing Sing
Mi Camino, From Emilia Pérez
Never Too Late, From Elton John: Never Too Late

Best International Feature

RankInternational Feature
Brazil, I’m Still Here
Denmark, The Girl With The Needle
France, Emilia Pérez
Germany, The Seed Of The Sacred Fig
Latvia, Flow

Best Animated Feature

RankInternational Feature
Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir Of A Snail
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot

Best Documentary Feature

Rankdoc Feature
Black Box Diaries
No Other Land
Porcelain War
Soundtrack To A Coup D’etat
Sugarcane

Best Documentary Short

Rankdoc short
Death By Numbers
I Am Ready, Warden
Incident
Instruments Of A Beating Heart
The Only Girl In The Orchestra

Best Live Action Short

Ranklive action short
A Lien
Anuja
I’m Not A Robot
The Last Ranger
The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent

Best Animated Short

Rankanimated action short
Beautiful Men
In The Shadow Of The Cypress
Magic Candies
Wander To Wonder
Yuck!